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TheMar
TheMar

Reputation: 1964

WCF From Class Library - hosting in IIS and wsdl generation

Allmost all day today I am trying to research on WCF and one of my aim was to create a WCF service manually (or almost so).

Based on few articles on web on how to structure WCF application I have created contracts project which contain service interfaces and implementation project. Both have Runtime.Serialization

I have created app.config 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
    <system.serviceModel>
        <behaviors>
            <serviceBehaviors>
                <behavior name="FulFillmentServiceBehaviour">
                  <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true" />
                </behavior>
            </serviceBehaviors>
        </behaviors>
        <services>
            <service behaviorConfiguration="FulFillmentServiceBehaviour"
                name="Project.Services.Fulfillment">
                <endpoint address="http://localhost:8080/Services" binding="basicHttpBinding"
                    bindingConfiguration="" contract="P.Infrastructure.Services.IFulfillment" />
                <endpoint binding="mexHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="" />
            </service>
        </services>
    </system.serviceModel>
</configuration>

1) How can I host this service in IIS I already created virtual directory pointing to folder containing project Services (url http://localhost:8080/Services)

2) How to create wsdl file so that I can use SOAPUI to test it

I tried adding a file "fulfillment.svc" with markup 

<%@ ServiceHost Language="C#" Debug="true" Service="Project.Services.Fulfillment" CodeBehind="Fulfillment.cs" %>

for the purpose of testing but it gave error

The type Project.Services.Fulfillment', provided as the Service attribute value in the ServiceHost directive could not be found.

Update 1******

just found this on net - may be this will help. one imp ino is that i will need web.config

http://wncadmb026d.na-idm.na-gad.nec.com/Services/Fulfillment.svc?wsdl

Update 2:*****

SOAP UI is able to generate SOAP request but gers http 404 as response...

http://www.aspfree.com/c/a/ASP.NET/Developing-a-WCF-Service-Library-and-Hosting-it-as-WCF-Web-Service-Using-VS2K8/

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2098

Answers (2)

TheMar
TheMar

Reputation: 1964

I was able to get the basic service up with help from http://www.aspfree.com/c/a/ASP.NET/Developing-a-WCF-Service-Library-and-Hosting-it-as-WCF-Web-Service-Using-VS2K8/

and

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733766(v=VS.90).aspx

I copied service model section from app.congig to web.config

I also had to chaNGE BUILD FOLDER TO /BIN Instead of /bin/debug/

will add more code tomorrow morning

Upvotes: 1

Sean Thoman
Sean Thoman

Reputation: 7499

For WSDL page you have the correct attribute:

 <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true" />

And you can access it by adding ?wsdl to the URL, ie http://localhost:8080/Service.svc?wsdl

As for the error, I think the problem is that you are not using the .svc extension:

 <%@ ServiceHost Language="C#" Debug="true" 
  Service="Project.Services.Fulfillment" CodeBehind="Fulfillment.svc.cs" %>

You are using a .svc file, right?

If you are not using an .svc file one thing to do is use routing, see this link for an example: http://geekswithblogs.net/michelotti/archive/2010/08/21/restful-wcf-services-with-no-svc-file-and-no-config.aspx

Upvotes: 0

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